Fr. Michael J. Lapierre died on April 4, 2016 at René Goupil House in Pickering, Ontario. He was in his 101st year of life and had lived 82 years in religious life in the Society of Jesus. Mike was born in Chapeau, Quebec on May 2, 1915, son of John Lapierre and Mary Jane McGuire. He was ordained a Jesuit priest on June 18, 1947. Fr. Mike was a professor of Theology at Regis College, Toronto for half a century. In 1970 he founded the Loyola Institute of Spiritual Renewal through which he had a profound influence in the theological and spiritual updating and renewal of women religious after Vatican II. After he retired from Regis College in 2001, he moved to La Storta in Pickering from which he was very active in pastoral ministry for almost 15 more years. He will be much missed by his friends, family and all the Jesuits.
Friends are invited to visit on Thursday, April 7, 2016 from 11-3 p.m. at Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home and Chapel, 467 Sherbourne St. (south of Wellesley St.). Evening Visitation on Thursday, April 7th from 7-9 p.m. (Wake service at 8 p.m.) at St. Ignatius Chapel Manresa-Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre, Liverpool Road North, Pickering, ON. Mass of Christian Burial at the Manresa-Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre on Friday, April 8th at 11:00am. Burial will take place in the Jesuit Cemetery – Guelph, ON at 2:30pm. In memory of Father Lapierre, donations may be made to the Jesuit Development Office, 43 Queen's Park Crescent E., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3.
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